31 Facts About IBM Notes

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HCL Notes provides business collaboration functions, such as email, calendars, to-do lists, contact management, discussion forums, file sharing, websites, instant messaging, blogs, document libraries, user directories, and custom applications.

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IBM Notes bought Lotus in 1995 and it became known as the Lotus Development division of IBM Notes.

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3.

On December 6,2018, IBM Notes announced that it was selling a number of software products to HCL Technologies for $1.

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IBM Notes can be used for email, as a calendar, PIM, instant messaging, Web browsing, and other applications.

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IBM Notes can be used with Sametime instant-messaging to allow to see other users online and chat with one or more of them at the same time.

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Domino servers and IBM Notes clients identify NSF files by their Replica IDs, and keep replicated files synchronized by bi-directionally exchanging data, metadata, and application logic and design.

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Creation of a local replica of an NSF file on the hard disk of an HCL IBM Notes client enables the user to fully use IBM Notes and Domino databases while working off-line.

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Lotus IBM Notes was the first widely adopted software product to use public key cryptography for client–server and server–server authentication and for encryption of data.

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IBM Notes 5 introduced an execution control list at the client level.

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10.

IBM Notes and Domino is a cross-platform, distributed document-oriented NoSQL database and messaging framework and rapid application development environment that includes pre-built applications like email, calendar, etc.

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IBM Notes databases are not relational, although there is a SQL driver that can be used with IBM Notes, and it does have some features that can be used to develop applications that mimic relational features.

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IBM Notes is a document-oriented database with support for rich content and powerful indexing facilities.

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IBM Notes includes a database management system but Notes files are different from relational or object databases because they are document-centric.

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Document-oriented databases such as IBM Notes allow multiple values in items, do not require a schema, come with built-in document-level access control, and store rich text data.

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IBM Notes is commonly deployed as an end-user email client in larger organizations.

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IBM Notes was designed as a collaborative application platform where email was just one of numerous applications that ran in the IBM Notes client software.

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IBM Notes 9 continued the evolution of the user interface to more closely align with modern application interfaces found in many commercial packaged or web-based software.

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18.

Publications such as The Guardian in 2006 have criticized earlier versions of Lotus IBM Notes for having an "unintuitive [user] interface" and cite widespread dissatisfaction with the usability of the client software.

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Older versions of IBM Notes suffered from similar user interaction choices, many of which were corrected in subsequent releases.

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20.

Unlike some other e-mail client software programs, IBM Notes developers made a choice to not allow individual users to determine whether a return receipt is sent when they open an e-mail; rather, that option is configured at the server level.

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IBM Notes developers believe "Allowing individual cancellation of return receipt violates the intent of a return receipt function within an organization".

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22.

In early releases of IBM Notes, there was considerable emphasis on client-side integration with the IBM Lotus SmartSuite environment.

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23.

IBM Notes Lotus Expeditor is a framework for developing Eclipse-based applications.

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In today's terminology, PLATO IBM Notes supported user-created discussion groups, and it was part of the foundation for an online community which thrived for more than 20 years on the PLATO system.

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25.

In 2008, IBM Notes released XPages technology, based on JavaServer Faces.

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26.

In November 2012, IBM announced it would be dropping the Lotus brand and moving forward with the IBM brand only to identify products, including Notes and Domino.

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27.

On October 9,2018, IBM Notes announced the availability of the latest version of the client and server software.

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28.

In 2019, Domino and IBM Notes became enterprise software products managed under HCL Software.

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29.

Once IBM Workplace was discontinued in 2006, speculation about dropping Notes was rendered moot.

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30.

IBM Notes contributed some of the code it had developed for the integration of the OpenOffice.

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31.

On October 25,2017, IBM Notes announced a plan to deliver a Domino V10 family update sometime in 2018.

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